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Quotes About Employment

American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.
~ Eileen Ford
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
~ Florence Kelley
At the end of the day, the truth is that if - when - robots prevail, so many vocations will actually become close to impossible. Save for the profession of making robots, that is.
~ Alissa Quart
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".
~ Milton Jones
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
~ Milton Friedman
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
~ Philip Greenspun
I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.
~ Sadiq Khan
I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.
~ Tim Kaine
I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.
~ Ben Gibbard
And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
~ Carl Karcher
I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
~ Francesca Annis
I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
~ Warren Beatty
When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.
~ Adam Shankman
What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.
~ Robert W. Bly
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
~ Amy Adams
In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.
~ Beth Behrs
It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.
~ Brian Harvey
The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'
~ Christina Romer
Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.
~ Debbie Stabenow
It's very, very hard to hire people, qualified people. And a lot of people didn't want the job because it's a three- or four-month job.
~ Donald Trump
We're going to bring our jobs back home. And if companies want to leave Arizona and if they want to leave other states, there's going to be a lot of trouble for them. It's not going to be so easy.
~ Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.
~ Donald Trump
Is possession a virtue? Is a lifetime of working for some rich toad a virtue? Is loyal employment in some merchant house a virtue? Loyal to what? To whom? Oh, have they paid for that loyalty with a hundred docks a week? Like any other commodity? But then, which version is truer – the virtue of self-serving acquisitiveness or the virtue of loyalty to one's employer? Are
~ Steven Erikson